Band 6 Locum Qualified OT Occupational Therapist

Job Title: Occupational Therapist – Band 6
Location:  MoD – Stanford Hall, Loughborough
Area:  East Midlands
Salary:  £28.28ph Umbrella
Job Type:  Locum
Contract Length:  Ongoing 
Job details:  Occupational Therapist required for 9 weeks, for Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre. Main duties:

• Work autonomously, without direct supervision and be accountable for own professional actions. They will support the delivery of a peripatetic OT service within OH.
• Provide clinical advice and training on the clinical value of OT input in OH to other members of the multidisciplinary team, and external agencies / organisations as requested.
• Assist the Occupational Medicine Consultant in providing timely and appropriate OH advice to key stakeholders, with appropriate reference to Joint and sS policies and current OH guidance and DPHC best practice guidelines.
• Have direct responsibility for a caseload, ensuring all SP have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporates the issues and recommendations made.
• Assess Service Personnel with a range of diagnoses and interpreting complex biopsychosocial factors which may impact on the Service Persons ability to return to work, including the impact on functional capacity of the diagnosis and prognosis.
• Undertake specific OT standardised and non-standardised assessments of function and activities such as workplace adaptions, Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) and job demand analysis in support of OH deliverables. This will involve making complex clinical decisions and generating specialist reports.
• Assess individuals and identify population trends using a range of assessment and intervention methods.

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week.
Code: U. NHSJ Q0004-42534-2. 007009.B21007